Good Saturday morning. EXCLUSIVE – Congress continues to look at ways to rebalance powers: Lisa Mascaro of the Las Vegas Sun's Washington Bureau is reporting for the Sunday front page that the “office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed this week that ‘conversations are taking place now to determine the best way’ for Congress to proceed” on an independent congressional committee or 9/11-style commission to deconstruct the White House’s ability to overreach, particularly in the national security arena. No decisions have been made.

PRESIDENT 44 -- The president-elect, after getting a haircut last night, is off to Hawaii until New Year’s. In his radio address, he named his science advisers. AP’s Hope Yen: “President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. Both John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government response.”

From the transition: “In this week's Democratic Radio Address, President-elect Barack Obama announced key members of his Science and Technology team, including: Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST); Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Nominee for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator; Dr. Eric Lander, Co-Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST); and Dr. Harold Varmus, Co-Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).”

DRIVING THE CONVERSATION -- Politico’s Martin Kady II, “GOP slams Bush for bailout”: “Republican leaders across the board have let loose on President Bush’s auto industry bailout in what may be some of the toughest GOP criticism of the Bush presidency. John McCain is leading the way, saying it is ‘unacceptable that we would leave the American taxpayer with a tab of tens of billions of dollars while failing to receive any serious concessions from the industry.’ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House GOP leader John Boehner and a cast of other angry fiscal conservatives have also rained criticism on the president. Bush may only have a month left in office, but Republican leaders who went along with the Wall Street bailout are finally making a clean break with their president on economic policy."

31 days to inauguration -- Obama off to Hawaii after filling out a Cabinet the WashPost front page calls "A Team of Moderates"

THE BIG IDEA – Politico’s Glenn Thrush and Harry Siegel, “Nepotism N.Y.-style as clans vie for seat”: “The appointment of the New York Senate seat Hillary Clinton will shortly vacate has become a struggle among political dynasties, with the question being which family ends. up on top. It involves no fewer than five intertwined political clans of varied national and regional standing-the Clintons, the Kennedys, the Cuomos, the Patersons and the Suozzis, with cameo appearances by the Ickes and the Rutnik-Gillibrand families. As the clans clash and collude to fill the soon-to-be vacant seat, the frontrunner to replace the former first lady appears to be Caroline Kennedy, the former first daughter with an unexceptional resume and a low public profile prior to her campaign work for Barack Obama earlier this year.”

N.Y. Times fronts “Kennedy Brand Leaves Cuomo Feeling Stymied”: “[W]hen it became clear that the Senate seat held by Hillary Rodham Clinton would become open, Mr. Cuomo restrained himself from overt campaigning and retreated to the background. That left the stage to Ms. Kennedy, who has marched out front and become the candidate everyone is talking about — and the favorite for the appointment. That, friends say, has left Mr. Cuomo feeling outfoxed and frustrated. ‘It’s driving him crazy,’ said one confidant of Mr. Cuomo’s, who spoke to the attorney general about the Senate seat this week. ‘He’s boxed in. He can’t do anything except fume, and he is fuming.’”

FIGHT WILL BE DRAWN OUT FOR AT LEAST A MONTH -- Chicago Sun-Times banner: “GOV’S VOW: ‘I WILL FIGHT. I WILL FIGHT. I WILL FIGHT.”

MOUNTING PRESSURE -- Bloomberg’s Timothy Burger, “Blagojevich Took Out Home-Equity Credit Line as His Legal Expenses Mounted”: “With legal bills from a federal corruption probe nearing $1 million a year ago, Rod Blagojevich and his wife took out a $104,000 home-equity line of credit on their Chicago residence, real estate records show.”

TIVO – C-SPAN’s “White House Week” series, tonight at 9 ET – “Interviews with President and Mrs. Bush: The evening begins with interviews with presidential historians Lonnie Bunch, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harold Holzer, Anthony Pitch, William Seale, and Richard Norton Smith. Then see encores of our interviews with President and Mrs. Bush. Program segments: 9:00p Historian stories on President Washington; 9:10p Historian stories on President Theodore Roosevelt; 9:15p First Lady Laura Bush tour of White House private residence; 9:45p Historian stories on President Franklin D. Roosevelt; 9:55p Historian stories on President Lyndon B. Johnson; 10:00p Interview with President Bush.”

PRAYERS FOR COMFORT FOR RICK KAPLAN, executive producer of the “CBS Evening News.” A friend writes: “Rick Kaplan's mom, Hazel Kaplan, passed away just after midnight. He was with her in Chicago. She was a remarkable lady. Rick, not surprisingly, is an only child. She was 90.”

Hazel Kaplan, who helped run Goldblatt's Department Stores during World War II, got to meet her third great-grandson yesterday. Rick’s two daughters -- Robyn and Alexis, her granddaughters -- were there, too.

Rick tells us she once cornered President Carter at an event where the press could bring their families. She was lecturing, the president was nodding, Rick was worried. He moved to intervene but Jody Powell said, “Everyone has a mom.” And of course, the president’s was Miss Lillian.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE’s Phil Rosenthal wrote a tribute to her in February: “To this mom, Couric is prop for son’s show: When WBBM-Ch. 2 pre-empted the ‘The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric’ on Thursday to devote more coverage to the shootings at Northern Illinois University, at least one viewer called station boss Joe Ahern to complain. Hazel Kaplan, who turns 90 Wednesday, was disappointed ‘Rikki’s show’ had been pre-empted. Rikki is Rick Kaplan, her son and Couric’s executive producer. …Rick Kaplan (who says his mom tagged him Rikki, as in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, because she was reading Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ when he was born) said she pleaded her case with Ahern as only a mother can. ‘She told him: “You have ratings trouble. You know why? It’s because viewers are tuning in to see Rikki’s show at 5:30 and they don’t see it there.”’ Both Ahern and Kaplan say Kaplan’s mom, who lives in Northbrook, is funny and still sharp. She just likes making waves.”

ENGAGED: Politico’s Sara D’Angelo, to Eric Olson, in the United States Botanic Garden on Thursday night, after a romantic walk around the Capitol and National Christmas Tree. It was 10 years to the night since Danielle Jones got engaged – also with an emerald-cut ring.

AGGRESSIVE: Todd Harris, rocking a turtleneck on “Hardball.” Todd e-mailed JMart: “Since I leave tomorrow for California, I thought I would pay tribute to the Jerry Brown look.”

REMEMBERING ROBIN TONER of The New York Times, who is survived by her husband, Peter Gosselin, chief economic correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, and their 11-year-old twins, Jacob and Nora. From Thursday’s memorial service:

--ADAM NAGOURNEY’S EULOGY: “Sometimes last fall, Maureen Dowd and I went to visit Robin at the ICU unit at Georgetown University Hospital. I told Robin how that morning, The New York Times’ ombudsman, Clark Hoyt, had written a critical column about our coverage of the presidential campaign, declaring that we were not doing enough serious issue coverage, and were instead yielding to the temptation of the horserace. Robin lifted her head from the pillow, smiled and said, ‘That’s because you don’t have ME there.’ Indeed. The death of Robin is a deep personal loss for all of us who knew and loved her, worked with her, ate dinner with her, drank too much wine with her and Peter on her porch or on ours, dished with her about New York Times gossip -- she was still asking me last week about the latest who-is-in, who-is-out rumors on 8th Avenue – and, most pleasurably, wrote stories with her. But her death was something else as well: a tear in the fabric of journalism and of The New York Times. Robin Toner represented the kind of reporter -- indeed, the kind of journalism -- that defined for me, and I suspect many people in this church today, why it was we got into this business in the first place, and why we stick by it even during this period of challenge and turmoil.

“I have worked alongside Robin – sometimes as a colleague, which was terrific, and sometimes as a competitor, which was not for 20 years now, since we first met covering the Michael Dukakis campaign for president in 1988, where we chased him through Staten Island and tried to figure out what the heck he was saying about U.N. Resolution 238. (I’m like, ‘Robin, that’s what you have a foreign desk for,’ but she was too proud to call and figured it out on her own). For these past four years or so, I have sat at the next desk in the New York Times Washington bureau, right behind her, in a seat by the window that gives her a view across the ever-changing newsroom. And for all those years at the paper -- through many great campaigns and legislative battles, through so many bureau chiefs and star young reporters and flame-outs, through some of the great crises at the New York Times, Robin Toner remained the heart and unflinching guardian of the great traditions of this business. She understood in her gut why newspapers exist, and clung to that standards that she grew up with even when the rules -- and our very purpose -- have been challenged by this roiling new world of 24-hour news cycles and blogs. …

“The six framed New York Times front pages on the wall over her desk offer a panoramic glimpse of some of the highpoints of her career. ‘Democrats take House,’ when Democrats won Congress in 2006; ‘Clinton Asks Backing for Sweeping Change in the health System,’ as she covered the historic battle over health care in the early 1990s, ‘Clinton Captures Presidency,’ the capstone of her term as national political reporter. And if you stop by, take a close look at those front pages. As often as not, she wrote not the hard news story, but the news analysis, which are among the most challenging stories at The New York Times, a form that, as our late colleague and friend David Rosenbaum used to say, distinguish different breeds of reporters. Here is where Robin ¬ -- with all of our authority, her clear thinking and compelling writing -- would explain what had just happened and what it meant, an analysis offered with both grace and depth. By the way, as a side note, Robin anguished about hanging those front pages, afraid that office mates would see that as an unseemly display of vanity. I’m like, ‘First of all, Robin, those ARE your front pages. And second of all, this is the Washington bureau of The New York Times: I don’t think you exactly have to worry about having too big an ego here.”

JANET ELDER’S EULOGY, READ BY RICK BERKE: “Robin was generous and wry. She loved flowers. She loved holidays. She watched a lot of television. She took her sisters on vacations. She had sparkling blue eyes and laughed easily and listened carefully. … Robin loved The New York Times. Before she met Peter, it was her home. Some people have said those of us who work in the newsroom of The New York Times are like one big dysfunctional family. Maybe. Or maybe it’s more like high school or summer camp or a fox hole. Maybe it feels like the Toner house in Chadds Ford. Whatever it is that binds us all together, Robin had an inordinate amount of it. She loved the pressure. She loved the high standards. She loved the sibling rivalry. But mostly, she loved her colleagues. Reporters like nothing more than reporting on each other. And Robin was no exception. She craved gossip. In one of our last conversations, in the middle of a discussion of some of life’s unanswerable questions, she paused and said, ‘Wait, let’s come back to that. First, tell me if you have any new gossip?’ Then, as always, she expressed disappointment in me for failing to come up with something she had not already heard.

“Robin had a lot of respect for those who came before us. On one of our many road trips during one presidential campaign or another, we went to dinner with an older colleague who had initially earned his journalist’s stripes in Vietnam and went on to a larger than life career and an unparalleled appetite for fine food. Some fledgling reporters, from another news organization sat at a nearby table and sent the old man a cheap drink with an umbrella in it. It was intended to mock. Robin was appalled at their level of disrespect and on our way out of the restaurant, paused at their table and admonished them. ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourselves,’ she said. ‘He was getting his butt shot off in Vietnam while you were in still in grade school.’”

PETER GOSSELIN’S EULOGY: “Nora and Jacob: The two of you have been wonderfully brave companions during Mom’s long struggle. Before we knew just how sick Mom was and I was working long hours on the economic crisis, I’d come home at midnight or 1 a.m. and find you, Jake, awake and moving about. I was mad as hops. These were school nights, and you were messing up my plan to keep us living as much of our normal lives as we could. Then I realized that what you were doing was keeping tabs on the household. You were guarding Mom. That was something that you should not have had to do. But it was brave. And when we finally realized that Mom was going to die and she and I prepared to make good on our promise to tell you when the cancer had begun to win, we spent an afternoon putting together some really great speeches that we thought would answer all your questions. Mom was going to say how much she was going to miss us. And I would explain how the family would circle around and keep us going. But Nora, you would have none of this tidy formulation. Mom hadn’t gotten the first sentence out of her mouth before you were on your feet: ‘THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING. I’M 11 YEARS OLD,’ you were saying. …

“Mom’s death cannot be cause for anger alone. There are plenty of things in this world to be angry about, and anger harnessed can be a great engine. But anger alone cuts you off from people and will haunt you deep into the night. … Mom’s death cannot be reason to be on guard all of the time. There are plenty of things in this world you need to protect yourselves against, and being on guard can keep these things at bay. But being on guard all of the time keeps everything else at bay as well -- friends and family, ideas and dreams. …

“I think she subscribed to the notion that anything bad that befell us or her -- even cancer -- was a conspiracy against the Irish. But even as she’d lecture me about holding my tongue with top editors or the doctors who could give her no peace, she could not help but take off after malarkey and the easy tough talk of Washington. Finally, Mom always, always rode out to meet what awaited her. When we were courting and I said I wanted children and she knew she had a medical condition that might keep her from having them, she simply scheduled an operation and gave me one week’s notice. After the two of you arrived and her position as chief of correspondents at The New York Times kept her from you, she gave up the position, went back to reporting and made sure she was home most nights by 7. And 15 months ago, after she’d been diagnosed with cancer, she reported out who the top three people in the field were; arranged appointments with each of them; and chose Father Kevin as her spiritual guide, all before I had even begun to grasp the full danger that was facing us.

“Mom did all of this because -- as angry as she could get; as guarded as she could be -- she loved her life and almost everybody in it too much to wait a minute. In an age that despises politics, she loved politicians. It helped if they were Democrats. But she loved almost any politician who would angle for advantage and grab for power. Just so long as she or he would use what they had gathered to do something big and good for people who could not do for themselves. She loved her tribe of journalists, and especially the members of her New York Times family. Every one of them would climb over each other for a good back story -- told perfectly, preferably over drinks to uproarious commentary. But every one of you lives and writes out loud, and therefore leaves yourself vulnerable -- to mistakes, to ridicule, to political invective. She dearly, dearly loved her sisters and brothers. She engaged them in a seemingly continuous telephonic round robin in which one would tell her something about a third which she was not to repeat to a fourth who she’d promptly call, thus assuring that everybody in the circle would know which would set the stage for another round of calls about how such a thing could ever possibly have happened. And more than anyone else -- more than anyone in this room or this city or country or world ¬ she loved the two of you, and wanted ¬ and wants ¬ so much from you and for you. …

“Mom wants you to skip stones on the coast of New England and eat gelato along the canals of Venice. She wants you to sail the great South Sea; dance to the crackle of the Northern Lights; lose yourself in a mathematical equation or the brush strokes of a painting or the precision of a rhyme…until you look up and see, to your surprise, that it is morning, and then go make pancakes and sausages for the ones you love. Though she would never -- ever -- do this herself, she wants you to snowboard and learn to Eskimo roll a kayak. She wants you to know Manhattan, to drive fast cars, and, eventually, to find a partner to love and marry. And one day as you are roaring through the wild and wonderful lives that she wishes for you, you might discover that you’ve learned something about God’s fairness. And if you don’t…you will still have had…you will ALWAYS have…the love of your mother. I love you. I would do ANYTHING to make this different for you. And with you, I miss Mom.”

GLOBAL RECESSION – The (London) Times cover: “Charities cut services as donations start to dry up -- Britons lose giving habit in face of recession: Charities across Britain are being forced to cut staff and services after a sharp fall in donations from businesses and the general public … One in three organisations expects to lay off staff within months, with smaller charities fearing for their survival. Money held by the sector has fallen by 13 per cent over the past year.

--THE WORLD’S SECOND-LARGEST ECONOMY – Bloomberg News: “Japan's government expenditure will increase to a record next year as Prime Minister Taro Aso tries to spend his way out of a recession and lift his slumping popularity ahead of an election. Spending will rise 6.6 percent to 88.5 trillion yen ($988 billion) in the year starting April 1, a third year of expansion, according to a budget proposal released by the Finance Ministry in Tokyo today.”

OVERSEAS – The (London) Times cover – “‘I will never, never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine’: President Mugabe scorned the growing international clamour for him to step down. Almost 21,000 Zimbabweans are infected with cholera.”

IN THE STATES – CALIFORNIA – JERRY BROWN, WHO IS CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR IN 2010, CAVES ON PROP. 8 – L.A. Times A1, “California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to invalidate the voter-approved ban on gay marriage … Brown's argument on Proposition 8, contained in an 111-page brief filed at the last possible moment before the court's deadline, surprised many legal experts. The attorney general has a legal duty to uphold the state's laws as long as there are reasonable grounds to do so. Last month, Brown said he planned to ‘defend the proposition as enacted by the people of California.’ But in his filing, Brown, who personally supports same-sex marriage, offered a novel legal theory to back his argument that the measure should be invalidated. The California Constitution protects certain rights as ‘inalienable,’ Brown wrote. Those include a right to liberty and to privacy, which the courts have said includes a person's right to marry.”

MEANWHILE, THE PROP. 8 BACKERS GET GREEDY -- AP/SanFran: “The sponsors of Proposition 8 argued for the first time Friday that the court should undo the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters banned gay marriage at the ballot box last month. The Yes on 8 campaign filed a brief telling the court that because the new law holds that only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized or valid in California, the state can no longer recognize the existing same-sex unions.”

First, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., aka, Moonbeam . Moonbeam is representative of Democratic politicians; rich, schizophrenic, and always jockeying for a higher political position. The ones from San Francisco has made it into an art form (think Jefferson Airplane). They "blow" on anything, as long as they think people think they are "blowing on something". Moonbeam was a Nun who thought he was a Priest, but then got "tired" of "pretending to be a Priest., because he was dreaming ot "green things", before being green was cool. He became a California Governor through "family dynasty (similar to what Caroline Kennedy is trying to do with that Senate seat in N.Y.), he "romped" with Linda Ronstadt in Africa until the Medfly, and Pete (Butt out of California's business) Wilson chased him into the Oakland Mayor's race. Money can buy a political race, anywhere, anytime in this country. Moonbeam bought up all the delapidated property along the Estruary in Oakland, and lived in what appeared on the outside to be an old, abandoned warehouse, but what was actually a palace on the inside. He attracted corporate parasites to a downtown Oakland driving up property values, and igniting gentrification by other White Democrat and Green Liberal nuts! His attacks on black instirutions, the black family, and black men, particularly, transformed Oakland from a black community to a White Liberal sprout-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, methamphetamine playground. Many blacks could no longer afford to live there. His policies "institutionalized" homelessness as Democratic policies have tended to do. Moonbeam left Oakland a community where entire neighborhoods (especially in East oakland) are gangstas. Many of these are gangsta who "raised themselves" without the benefit of parental guidance, because the parents were "incarcerated" gangstas; Children as young as 5 and 6 years old were in gangs, and "armed", too. Oakland became Cokeland became Crackland! He allowed whole neighborhoods of gangstas to light bondfires, and do donuts (in cars) in the middle of broad avenues, on the weekend, jeopardizing the lives of many. People were killed while they sat in their homes watching television. He and his Democrat officeholders allowed gnagsta with AK-47's to roam the streets freely, and gun down whomever they wished. The life expectancy of a black teenager in Oakland (and other Democrat-ruled urban areas) is 15 years. All businesses moved out of the city; citizens had to travel to other cities to shop for food, because there wer e no grocery stores there. The cops were afraid to go into some neighborhoods. The gangstas "outcopped " the cops . The cops lived outside the city, because even they could not afford to live there. Moonbeam was scared s***less to walk outside his own office. He left his laptop in his limo with a driver, and it was taken in broad daylight from his car, in front of a California State building. He left Oakland in a shambles, and a large portion of the population dead. He has more money than he can count, and nothing to do, so he is "running for Governor 'again'", because, like Caroline Kennedy, he feels he has a "right " to public office. He is a "Leftist Nut Shell", and can never be elected to the Presidency, so he is back to make life "greener", and more miserable for the people of California. The Boobengrabber (Arnold S.) will be out of the governorship, so the gubernatorial mud fight will be between the Los Angeles Mayor, San Francisco's "Queen Mayor" gavin Newsom, and Moonbeam. They are all "sucking up to the Gays, and illegal aliens, and their supporters, and environmentalists who want everybody to have a 'green stool". Moonbeam can tell you what the weather is like on the moon, he know the temperature, humidity, and has ideals that reach for the moon. In terms of solving everyday problems, forget it! He is just blowing "moondust"!============================Obama went to Hawaii to smoke some weed! Good riddance, we will have a week or so to rest from his "lying" press conferences and political posterings from pontifications on high. His Democrat Slavelords, and Chicago Gangsta "handlers" should be worried about how "overexposed" this guy is. He is "burning out even before he takes office. Vice-President -elect Joe Biden is "sensing" this, and is getting busy himself, taking advantage of the opportunities at hand. Cold, calculating gangstas never cease to "calculate".

First, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., aka, Moonbeam . Moonbeam is representative of Democratic politicians; rich, schizophrenic, and always jockeying for a higher political position. The ones from San Francisco has made it into an art form (think Jefferson Airplane). They "blow" on anything, as long as they think people think they are "blowing on something". Moonbeam was a Nun who thought he was a Priest, but then got "tired" of "pretending to be a Priest., because he was dreaming ot "green things", before being green was cool. He became a California Governor through "family dynasty (similar to what Caroline Kennedy is trying to do with that Senate seat in N.Y.), he "romped" with Linda Ronstadt in Africa until the Medfly, and Pete (Butt out of California's business) Wilson chased him into the Oakland Mayor's race. Money can buy a political race, anywhere, anytime in this country. Moonbeam bought up all the delapidated property along the Estruary in Oakland, and lived in what appeared on the outside to be an old, abandoned warehouse, but what was actually a palace on the inside. He attracted corporate parasites to a downtown Oakland driving up property values, and igniting gentrification by other White Democrat and Green Liberal nuts! His attacks on black instirutions, the black family, and black men, particularly, transformed Oakland from a black community to a White Liberal sprout-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, methamphetamine playground. Many blacks could no longer afford to live there. His policies "institutionalized" homelessness as Democratic policies have tended to do. Moonbeam left Oakland a community where entire neighborhoods (especially in East oakland) are gangstas. Many of these are gangsta who "raised themselves" without the benefit of parental guidance, because the parents were "incarcerated" gangstas; Children as young as 5 and 6 years old were in gangs, and "armed", too. Oakland became Cokeland became Crackland! He allowed whole neighborhoods of gangstas to light bondfires, and do donuts (in cars) in the middle of broad avenues, on the weekend, jeopardizing the lives of many. People were killed while they sat in their homes watching television. He and his Democrat officeholders allowed gnagsta with AK-47's to roam the streets freely, and gun down whomever they wished. The life expectancy of a black teenager in Oakland (and other Democrat-ruled urban areas) is 15 years. All businesses moved out of the city; citizens had to travel to other cities to shop for food, because there wer e no grocery stores there. The cops were afraid to go into some neighborhoods. The gangstas "outcopped " the cops . The cops lived outside the city, because even they could not afford to live there. Moonbeam was scared s***less to walk outside his own office. He left his laptop in his limo with a driver, and it was taken in broad daylight from his car, in front of a California State building. He left Oakland in a shambles, and a large portion of the population dead. He has more money than he can count, and nothing to do, so he is "running for Governor 'again'", because, like Caroline Kennedy, he feels he has a "right " to public office. He is a "Leftist Nut Shell", and can never be elected to the Presidency, so he is back to make life "greener", and more miserable for the people of California. The Boobengrabber (Arnold S.) will be out of the governorship, so the gubernatorial mud fight will be between the Los Angeles Mayor, San Francisco's "Queen Mayor" gavin Newsom, and Moonbeam. They are all "sucking up to the Gays, and illegal aliens, and their supporters, and environmentalists who want everybody to have a 'green stool". Moonbeam can tell you what the weather is like on the moon, he know the temperature, humidity, and has ideals that reach for the moon. In terms of solving everyday problems, forget it! He is just blowing "moondust"!============================Obama went to Hawaii to smoke some weed! Good riddance, we will have a week or so to rest from his "lying" press conferences and political posterings from pontifications on high. His Democrat Slavelords, and Chicago Gangsta "handlers" should be worried about how "overexposed" this guy is. He is "burning out even before he takes office. Vice-President -elect Joe Biden is "sensing" this, and is getting busy himself, taking advantage of the opportunities at hand. Cold, calculating gangstas never cease to "calculate".